Simon_NZ
6th October 2006, 12:47 AM
Sup all!
Here is my attempt at giving the demo a review, im not going to be able to cover all elements of the demo but hopefully will be able to give you guys a good idea about what it is like.
First off, im not impressed. In my brief exprience with the demo tonight I found it to be "loose" compared with BF2.
The heavy armour just felt strange, the driver has the usual cannon but no co-axial mounted machine gun, this is in my opinnion is gay. The lack of being able to defend yourself from infantry is a bad thing, armour should be feared. This wont be simply because a 3 team of infantry is going to be destroy armour easy.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/17/bf21422006100522580840mv1.png (http://imageshack.us)
Internal View of the main tank, poor viewing area I think.
I found the infantry weapons to be average, the support kit seemed VERY VERY spammy. I would take the MG36 or RPK over it any day in terms of dynamics and feel. All the kits only have the very basic unlocks, eg pistol, main weapon, and med pack for assualt. No gernades or explosives at all, which kinda sucks even for a demo.
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6070/bf21422006100522465393vu5.png (http://imageshack.us)
Assault kit, nice looking terrian though.
Personally for me the biggest buzz I get from BF2 is tearing noobs a new arsehole on jellybad AND flying for a brillant gunner like Vietnow. Helos have became my bread and butter of BF2 so naturally I was looking forward to the new Helos...WTF!!?!? is it a jet? or a fucken plane? You don't have the agility and precision of the helo nor the speed of a jet. The inability to be able to pull of any decent moves is balls. Woohoo managed to get onto my tail twice tonight and I died. Big ups to woohoo but whatever I did he stayed on my tail, I got the drop on him and Im sure he might be thinking the same thing. For gunners its the same reskinned cannon and TV missile...you dont need to click for though this time...
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5892/bf21422006100522541821lr2.png (http://imageshack.us)
Internal view, not cluttered. The position of the weapons seems odd, all the rockets fire from the right hand side.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6720/bf21422006100522550845zl2.png (http://imageshack.us)
looks so good, pitty it aint.
What has impressed me though is the graphics, there seems to no difference between Bf 2142 and BF2 except when looking at a few new graphical features. The terrian is alot nice and the building design isnt a simple rinse and repeat job like some of BF2's stuff.
All these screenshots were taking on a AMD 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.5ghz, 2 GB ram, dual nvidia 7800GTX and 80gb seagate satas in RAID 0....
Loading times were good, once the shaders were optimized/cached...that took fucken ages though. The main menu screen is very small and fiddly aswell and two sets of logins were needed for the demo 1st) EA games then 2nd came the actual game login.
So far though im not impressed, the new titan mode is really no different to normal capture the flag because instead of wearing down points you wear down a shield, more points faster the shield erodes because you can fire more missiles at it. Hopefully i just exprienced a crappy map or a slower bomber version of the helo/jet hybrid, probley not.
mayby with the new unlocks things will improve, i hope they do, overall it does look like it could very mayby be fun...hopefully just the no unlocks and average map make things worse than they seem
nfi vindicator
Here is my attempt at giving the demo a review, im not going to be able to cover all elements of the demo but hopefully will be able to give you guys a good idea about what it is like.
First off, im not impressed. In my brief exprience with the demo tonight I found it to be "loose" compared with BF2.
The heavy armour just felt strange, the driver has the usual cannon but no co-axial mounted machine gun, this is in my opinnion is gay. The lack of being able to defend yourself from infantry is a bad thing, armour should be feared. This wont be simply because a 3 team of infantry is going to be destroy armour easy.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/17/bf21422006100522580840mv1.png (http://imageshack.us)
Internal View of the main tank, poor viewing area I think.
I found the infantry weapons to be average, the support kit seemed VERY VERY spammy. I would take the MG36 or RPK over it any day in terms of dynamics and feel. All the kits only have the very basic unlocks, eg pistol, main weapon, and med pack for assualt. No gernades or explosives at all, which kinda sucks even for a demo.
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/6070/bf21422006100522465393vu5.png (http://imageshack.us)
Assault kit, nice looking terrian though.
Personally for me the biggest buzz I get from BF2 is tearing noobs a new arsehole on jellybad AND flying for a brillant gunner like Vietnow. Helos have became my bread and butter of BF2 so naturally I was looking forward to the new Helos...WTF!!?!? is it a jet? or a fucken plane? You don't have the agility and precision of the helo nor the speed of a jet. The inability to be able to pull of any decent moves is balls. Woohoo managed to get onto my tail twice tonight and I died. Big ups to woohoo but whatever I did he stayed on my tail, I got the drop on him and Im sure he might be thinking the same thing. For gunners its the same reskinned cannon and TV missile...you dont need to click for though this time...
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/5892/bf21422006100522541821lr2.png (http://imageshack.us)
Internal view, not cluttered. The position of the weapons seems odd, all the rockets fire from the right hand side.
http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6720/bf21422006100522550845zl2.png (http://imageshack.us)
looks so good, pitty it aint.
What has impressed me though is the graphics, there seems to no difference between Bf 2142 and BF2 except when looking at a few new graphical features. The terrian is alot nice and the building design isnt a simple rinse and repeat job like some of BF2's stuff.
All these screenshots were taking on a AMD 64 X2 4400+ @ 2.5ghz, 2 GB ram, dual nvidia 7800GTX and 80gb seagate satas in RAID 0....
Loading times were good, once the shaders were optimized/cached...that took fucken ages though. The main menu screen is very small and fiddly aswell and two sets of logins were needed for the demo 1st) EA games then 2nd came the actual game login.
So far though im not impressed, the new titan mode is really no different to normal capture the flag because instead of wearing down points you wear down a shield, more points faster the shield erodes because you can fire more missiles at it. Hopefully i just exprienced a crappy map or a slower bomber version of the helo/jet hybrid, probley not.
mayby with the new unlocks things will improve, i hope they do, overall it does look like it could very mayby be fun...hopefully just the no unlocks and average map make things worse than they seem
nfi vindicator